Quotes with death-like

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  • Benjamin Rush Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • James Russell Lowell Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Wycherley Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Berger Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Earl Wilson Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Ford Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Francis Bacon Money is like muck, not good except it is be spread.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • James Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anton Chekhov Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Carine Roitfeld Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Adam Mickiewicz Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting
    Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft,
    Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets,
    Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.
    Crimean Sonnets
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  • Iris Murdoch Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • John Keats Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • J. Swartz Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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